Medical devices

Health Usha Lee McFarling

FDA urged to move faster to fix pulse oximeters for darker-skinned patients

Exclusive Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: AI therapy and ICU training: A first look at health apps for Apple Vision Pro

Health Annalisa Merelli

Promising red-light myopia treatment for children is raising safety concerns among experts

Associated Press

Philips to stop selling sleep apnea machines in U.S. under tentative agreement with FDA, DOJ

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Cognito raises $35 million for Alzheimer’s treatment device, touts benefits compared to drugs

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA OKs — but doesn’t require — a non-cancer-causing chemical for sterilizing devices

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: The FDA’s diagnostics chief, who led through Covid, has retired

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA clears AI skin cancer detector for primary care doctors to use

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Many doctors are in the dark about how FDA approves devices and drugs, survey finds

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Boston Scientific acquires urology company Axonics for $3.7 billion

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: An injectable gel enters the male birth control fray with early positive clinical data

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Philips pays $2.4 million for allegedly giving kickbacks to sleep labs

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: With Biden finalizing an Apple Watch ban, Apple needs to decide its future in health

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: 3 medtech trends to watch in 2024

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: SEC charges former CEO of pain relief device company with $41 million fraud

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Apple pauses sales of latest watches in the U.S. after ITC decision

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Amputees have better balance, less pain after electrical stimulation, study finds

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: GE HealthCare CEO named chair of AdvaMed as device lobby forms new imaging division

Health tech Deborah Balthazar

STAT Plus: In pigs, researchers show ultrasound could be used for 3D printing inside the body

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Medtronic cancels $738 million acquisition of diabetes tech company EOFlow

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: ChatGPT doesn’t know much about drugs, Hims & Hers enters weight-loss market

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Takeda, Janssen join wearable maker to measure scratching, and other health tech news

The Gatekeepers Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: How the CEO of the largest medical device accelerator molds medtech startups

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA approves Medtronic high blood pressure device despite a negative advisory panel vote

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: A digital pill shows early promise in detecting opioid overdose, sleep apnea

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: NYU researchers tackle the challenge of making MRI machines less expensive

Health Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: After decades in use, heart stents finally beat placebo. It took a bold researcher

Health tech Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: FDA approves high blood pressure device from Recor Medical

Health tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: FTC’s Lina Khan makes a stop at Y Combinator, how telehealth helps rural America